The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - Blue and White Porcelain with Underglaze Red (III), vol. 36, Hong Kong, 2000, pp. 22-3, no. 18.

This sizable dish, featuring an expansive decorative surface on its upper side, allowed Kangxi ceramic artists to showcase their landscape painting skills. The chosen style for this dish is a variation of the 'Master of the Rocks' style. This artistic approach is finely painted in the 'Master of the Rocks' style in penciled line and blue wash with a scholar and attendant walking towards a lakeside pavilion, and a farmer and his ox in the distance, the exterior painted in the blue wash with two low mountain ranges with a pavilion - 10 5/8in. (27cm.) diam. merged in the mid-17th century during the final years of the Ming dynasty and remained popular during the early Kangxi era. It wasn't confined to a single artist; instead, it appeared in various renditions of porcelain pieces from approximately 1640 to 1700. The 'Master of the Rocks' style was utilized on ceramics adorned with underglaze cobalt blue, underglaze blue, and copper red, and in exceptionally rare cases, in combination with famille verte enamels. This style is characterized by the use of 'hemp-fiber' brushstrokes to create dynamic, dramatic rocky landscapes, often enhanced by the application of fluid dots to depict vegetation and shrubbery.

This shows how industrialization impacts the Asian design industry technology. Because you do not see anyone in China do this type of art and put out products like this. The Script on the bottom of the Vases and plates in China all have a meaning and play an important role.  The script on the bottom is called Reign marks. IN Imperial Kangxi ceramics they are designated by a six-character kai shu mark, enclosed within a double ring in underglaze blue this is to Identify each piece as its own and to individualize and identify them as a singular piece as its self. Today with modernization and industrialization everything is made in a mass amount and not singular and unique as itself. Designers should learn how to bring that back to today's world because of mass production and large corporations as a whole and support small freelancers and businesses.